Last Monday, October 4, in the framework of the end of the celebration of the Time of Creation 2021, the religious leaders of the Ecumenical Committee and the Interreligious Committee, together with the Laudato Si’ Panama movement, held a joint event to sign a commitment to work together to promote the welfare of our society, through the care of the common home.
This initiative is framed as a response to the call made by Pope Francis in the encyclical Laudato Si’, promulgated in 2015, to become aware of the enormous challenges of this socio-environmental crisis afflicting the planet.
Rabbi Gustavo Kraselnik said: “I welcome this commitment. While the encyclical has been extremely inspiring since its promulgation more than 6 years ago to summon all good people, believers and non-believers to work together for the care of the common home, I would dare say that this pandemic we are still going through has made it indispensable”.
José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, Metropolitan Archbishop, said: “The care of the common home does not start in us from a heroic volunteerism or an ideology: our motivation can have no other foundation than that which sustains creation and the whole history of salvation, the gratuitous love of God. This is why integral ecology and its religious dimension is a place of encounter with all other Christian churches and a common path with other religions. For we share with all people of new will the task of building the common good”.
The event took place in the facilities of our community center and culminated with the planting of a tree as a testimony of the conviction of advancing in dialogue and interreligious cooperation to carry out an ecological transformation that, from human roots, has an impact on the transformation of lifestyles, daily habits and institutional processes.
